[spyderboyant]

ta. I originally activated via ODBEleven dongle... however it is a real pain for reliability.

Ok, another update...
GEM activated, user defined SWDL activated, exited from GEM (no reboot) red update menu, update selected, but still “train is blocked” error message.

Is there something missing or wrong in my procedure???

Attached some GEM menu photos.

Hey mate,

Upgrade should work and what you have done is what I did. Unfortunately I cannot see your pictures. What version are you upgrading from? My issue was there was a TPI to upgrade my MIB2 from 00358 "P" (MHI2_ER_AUG22_P2133) image factory to 0358 "K" (MHI2_ER_AUG22_K2140_1) update image but my unit was missing from the supportedTrains section of the metainfo2.txt file on the update media. What I got in the RED engineering menu was:

"A variant conflict has occured!"
Main Unit version: MHI2_ER_AUG22_P2133
Release metainfo version: Train is blocked

The reason for this was the train into in the update CD had missed my unit version: 4M0 906 961 B

SupportedTrains = "MHI2_ER_AUG22_P1056*,MHI2_ER_AUG22_P1064*,MHI2_ER_AUG22_P2116*,MHI2_ER_AUG22_K2140*"

What might be happening is that the SWDL only ignores the last characters that are relevant to the actual train and not the first ones which relate to the hardware.

ie Unit must be MHI2_ER_AUG22 but ignore the rest...